Metro Weekly

Columns

  • We Go On

    I'm sure every generation believes that its own time is the scariest time to be alive — from Depression babies to World War II to...

  • Radical Divisions

    I supported Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) long before his stirring testimony at Rep. Peter King's (R-N.Y.) McCarthy-style anti-Muslim hearings last week. Ellison, the first Muslim...

  • Living by Example

    I am an early-adopting technophile in many ways — iPad, iPhone, Xbox, Playstation, ad infinitum — so much of my life revolves around various devices....

  • Imperfect Union

    My grandfather was a union man. I didn't know this till I was shown a photo of him, long after he died, taking part in...

  • Freedom To Hate

    Some people make me sick. Case in point, any member of the Fred Phelps clan who has been involved in the Westboro Baptist Church's ongoing...

  • Gay Panic Fading

    I never believed that Barack Obama was really opposed to marriage equality. It wasn't just that he had previously endorsed it and was completely comfortable...

  • The Big Small Screen

    While I love movies, I actually rather hate movie theaters. I realize that many people enjoy the communal experience of a movie — sharing in...

  • Gay New World

    Theoretically, a vacation is time to recharge, to reflect, to generally recuperate from accumulated weariness. In reality, the world keeps spinning and we remain connected...

  • GOProud's CPAC Splash

    GOProud co-founders Christopher Barron and Jimmy LaSalvia made a big splash at CPAC last weekend, including with a heavily promoted party, but the early returns...

  • An Achievement to Celebrate

    Last week, Whitman-Walker Clinic shared with the community good news that has not happened here in nearly a decade. We reported an operating gain for...

  • Right Turns

    There is, of course, the old canard that a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged. Just from my personal experience, though, I know that...

  • Word Play

    Being the good uncles I imagine us to be, my husband and I took our 10-year-old nephew out to dinner at the mall this past...

  • Bravery in Black

    An extraordinary display of gay courage and determination comes to us from Mukono, Uganda, thanks to a YouTube video of last Friday's funeral for murdered...

  • Working for Change

    As the Obama administration releases new details on ending ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' and the president continues his public evolution on the vital issue of...

  • Great Expectations

    Because I've been doing this long enough, I tend to approach annual political events like the State of the Union speech as a bit of...